The Decline Of The Old Medical Regime In Stuart London
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A landmark work in the history of medicine, this scholarly study chronicles the dramatic transformation of medical authority and practice in seventeenth-century London, tracing the collapse of the old hierarchical system dominated by the College of Physicians. Harold J. Cook argues that the rise of commercial culture, political upheaval, and new empirical philosophies fundamentally undermined the traditional gatekeepers of medical knowledge, opening the field to a diverse array of practitioners, apothecaries, and unlicensed healers. With meticulous archival research, The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London illustrates how the social and economic forces of the Stuart era reshaped not only who could practice medicine, but what medicine itself was understood to be. The tone is rigorously academic yet compellingly narrative, making it an essential read for historians of science, medicine, and early modern England alike.
Author: Harold J. Cook
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Cornell University Press
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work in the history of medicine, this scholarly study chronicles the dramatic transformation of medical authority and practice in seventeenth-century London, tracing the collapse of the old hierarchical system dominated by the College of Physicians. Harold J. Cook argues that the rise of commercial culture, political upheaval, and new empirical philosophies fundamentally undermined the traditional gatekeepers of medical knowledge, opening the field to a diverse array of practitioners, apothecaries, and unlicensed healers. With meticulous archival research, The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London illustrates how the social and economic forces of the Stuart era reshaped not only who could practice medicine, but what medicine itself was understood to be. The tone is rigorously academic yet compellingly narrative, making it an essential read for historians of science, medicine, and early modern England alike.